String theory and duality

zbMATH Open0919.14022arXivmath/9809004MaRDI QIDQ1126722FDOQ1126722

Authors: Paul S. Aspinwall 

Publication date: 6 August 1998

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is a very brief survey of some results in the geometry of string duality delivered at a lecture given at ICM 1998, Berlin. String Duality is the statement that one kind of string theory compactified on one space is equivalent in some sense to another string theory compactified on a second space. This draws a connection between two quite different spaces. Mirror symmetry is an example of this. Here we discuss mirror symmetry and another ``heterotic/type II duality which relates vector bundles on a K3 surface to a Calabi-Yau threefold.

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spacemoduli spacesmirror symmetrystring dualityCalabi-Yau threefoldsupergravitysuperstringheterotic stringK3-surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (3)-folds (14J30)

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